The Taurus Mountains ( Toros Dağları ) are Anatolia's second chain of folded mountains.

Anatolia's terrain is structurally complex.

Caria arose as a Neo-Hittite kingdom around the 11th century BC. The coast of Caria was part of the Dorian hexapolis ( six-cities ) when the Dorians arrived after the Trojan War in the last and southernmost waves of Greek migration to western Anatolia's coastline and occupied former Mycenaean settlements such us Knidos and Halicarnassos ( present-day Bodrum ).

The development of folk poetry in Turkish — which began to emerge in the 13th century with such important writers as Yunus Emre, Sultan Veled, and Şeyyâd Hamza — was given a great boost when, on 13 May 1277, Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey declared Turkish the official state language of Anatolia's powerful Karamanid state ; subsequently, many of the tradition's greatest poets would continue to emerge from this region.

The development of folk poetry in Turkish — which began to emerge in the 13th century with such important writers as Yunus Emre, Sultan Veled, and Şeyyâd Hamza — was given a great boost when, on 13 May 1277, Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey declared Turkish the official state language of Anatolia's powerful Karamanid state ; subsequently, many of the tradition's greatest poets would continue to emerge from this region.

Traces of prehistory in the Manisa region, although few in number, nevertheless include two very interesting finds that shed much light on western Anatolia's past.

Original burial practices observed in these sepulchres led scholars to the definition of a " Yortan culture " in Anatolia's prehistory, many of whose aspects remain yet to be explored.

But already during the preceding century, influent western merchants such as Orlando, often in pact with local warlords such as Cennetoğlu, a brigand ( sometimes cited as one of the first in line in western Anatolia's long tradition of efes to come ) who in the 1620s had assembled a vast company of disbanded Ottoman soldiers and renegades and established control over much of the fertile land around Manisa, had triggered a movement of more commercially sensitive Greek and Jewish populations towards the port city.

Due to the particularity of its location, commanding a large part of Anatolia's southwestern coast and a number of busy district centers, Muğla is also notable by the large number of people who, short of being natives in the strict sense, had associations of one sort or another with the city, including among its small Greek minority until the 1923 Population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

The physical environment of Uzbekistan is diverse, ranging from the flat, desert topography that comprises almost 80 % of the country's territory to mountain peaks in the east reaching about above sea level.

Mozambique ’ s diverse soils and climatic conditions, influenced by latitude, variations in altitude, topography and the proximity to the coast, offer a wide range of production opportunities ; agricultural potential is high despite frequent droughts and floods.

Their mountainous topography causes one of the most diverse climates in that region.

There is a diverse topography, from flat wetlands to rolling hills, to steep mountainside.

KwaZulu-Natal has a varied yet verdant climate thanks to diverse, complex topography.

As a result of its diverse topography, Meru Betiri NP contains five distinct vegetation types:

Its diverse topography ranges from the volcanic Tibesti Mountains to the Bodélé Depression, a vast Holocene lake-bed that is one of the Earth's strongest dust storm producing regions.

Various Superintendents developed its work in fields as diverse as astronomy, cartography, meteorology, geodesy, geology, geophysics, hydrography, navigation, oceanography, exploration, pilotage, tides and topography.

Shen Kuo took notice of the various towns and rural features of China as his family traveled, while he became interested during his youth in the diverse topography of the land.

This orographically forced climate has, through the vastness of time, worked in intimate union with the geology and topography to create a richly diverse landscape possessing vast biological diversity.

With its diverse natural ecosystems, two-thirds of a mile ( 1 km ) of tidal waterfront on the Back River, dramatic topography, and more than 300 native plant species including hundreds of pink lady-slipper orchids already on the site, this property seemed ideal.

The diverse topography provides a variety of microclimates giving the visitor a sensation of going from a desert environment to a tropical rainforest.

The municipal area of Pitigliano, while presenting diverse local situations on the basis of ' topography is characterized by rather low winter temperatures, which can occur during prolonged periods, despite the daily maximum values ​​ are often pleasing on the contrary, in summer the heat can be very intense, though usually accompanied by low relative humidity.

The unique blend of ocean conditions and undersea topography creates a rich and diverse underwater ecosystem.

The topography of the municipality is diverse.

Forests are central to all human life because they provide a diverse range of resources: they store carbon, aid in regulating the planetary climate, purify water and mitigate natural hazards such as floods.

The climate of China is extremely diverse ; Tropical in the south to subarctic in the north.

Potatoes yield abundantly with little effort, and adapt readily to diverse climates as long as the climate is cool and moist enough for the plants to gather sufficient water from the soil to form the starchy tubers.

The Fertile Crescent had a diverse climate, and major climatic changes encouraged the evolution of many " r " type annual plants, which produce more edible seeds than " K " type perennial plants.

Following the emergence of the circumpolar current in the mid-Oligocene era ( some 15 MYA ), the Australian climate became increasingly arid, giving rise to a diverse group of arid-specialised organisms, just as the wet tropical and seasonally wet areas gave rise to their own uniquely adapted species.

Serb folk attire varies, mostly because of the very diverse geography and climate of the territory inhabited by the Serbs.

This high plain, known as the Little Karoo, has a more temperate climate and more diverse flora and fauna than the Great Karoo.

Pine Bluff retains a healthy, diverse cultural climate.

The climate is strikingly diverse for such a reduced area.

The lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea in southern Europe, north Africa, and western Asia are home to the Mediterranean basin ecoregions, which together constitute world's largest and most diverse mediterranean climate region of the world, with generally mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers.

In addition to its diverse climate zones and flora, The Colonia Tovar has a great diversity of wildlife, mainly species of birds, which includes a total of 578 registered species.

Overall, the northern watershed is not very diverse ecologically, due to its cold climate – permafrost underlies about three-quarters of the watershed, reaching up to deep in the delta region – and meager to moderate rainfall, amounting to about over the basin as a whole.

Owing to the relatively warm climate and diverse geography affording excellent growth-conditions for a variety of vegetables, herbs and fruits, Bulgarian cuisine ( Bulgarian: българска кухня, bulgarska kuhnya ) offers great diversity.

With columns penned by more than 20 experienced artistic advisors, cultural critics, curators and journalists, this unique multi-platform project offers diverse viewpoints on the artistic climate of SoCal ’ s 11 counties -- identifying trends, movements and expressions in a variety of creative disciplines.

* Improve the overall climate on diverse project teams in order to improve satisfaction, reduce conflicts, and improve team member retention

Often, the same ECU is used for diverse systems at the same time ( ABS, Traction control system, climate control, etc.

BD farming practices have been found to be more resilient to environmental challenges, to foster a diverse biosphere, and to be more energy efficient ; factors of increasing importance in the face of climate change, energy scarcity and population growth.

Ranging in size from the 30 g ( 1. 1 oz ) Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, the world's smallest primate, to the recently extinct 160 – 200 kg ( 350 – 440 lb ) Archaeoindris fontoynonti, lemurs evolved diverse forms of locomotion, varying levels of social complexity, and unique adaptations to the local climate.

Scilloideae are widely distributed in Europe, Africa and Asia, in temperate to tropical habitats, but are more diverse in areas of Mediterranean climate ( i. e., with a pronounced dry season during the summer ).

The religious climate of 1st century Judea was quite diverse with numerous variations of Judaic doctrine, many attempts to establish an ideal holy community and divergent ideas about Israel's future hopes.

The cool and moist climate, high rainfall, and variety of microclimates brought about by differences in elevation and exposure supports lush and diverse forests ; 35 % of the plant species are endemic to the ecoregion.

As a specific example, Interfaith Power and Light founded by Reverend Sally G. Bingham is an initiative responding in very practical ways to the reality of global climate change by effectively promoting energy efficiency and conservation through many thousands of diverse religious organizations and their members in more than 39 states of the United States of America.

Thanks to the diverse climate, a lot of different vegetables and fruit can be grown in Tuluá.